Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-05 | Page 6 | How Fortunes Are Made

HOW FORTUNES ARE MADE. Incident at Manhattan District Illus- strates Opportunities. A visitor from the Nevada fields told a gooil story Thursday regarding the way in which (iilk fortunes ure made In tin- new g"id district .,r Manhattan line of Goldlleld's prominent tinning men. Who has madi B g'"' slake In that camp, went to the Manhattan district for the purpose of using a portion of his stake In getting In on the new Strikes He w;ik offered a property for $ou,'K4i In cash, but refused to buy. Kventually he secured a lease upon the group of claims, and by a rather limited sstm of development work took $:.- (100 out of the ground within a few months Adding as much again to the amount extracted. he purchased the property at the original price, and now would listen to no propositions whatever 1,1 dispose uf ills gi 1 mud.